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Johnson Law Firm, P.C. | Personal Injury & Family Law

Local pack #1. That's real. But organic tells a different story — sixth out of seven audited Spokane law firms on the query that matters most. Maxey Law sits above you at position one, with Justia and a directory behind them. Three non-firms outrank a practicing attorney. The gap isn't effort. It's structure. Two things are costing you ground. Your site carries no LocalBusiness schema, so Google can't confirm the basics — name, address, category — from the page itself. And your Spokane localization score is 25 out of 100, partly because your page title doesn't name the city. Google reads the title first. If it doesn't say Spokane, you don't anchor there. The report below shows exactly where those signals are missing and what fixing them changes.

1Where You Actually Rank in Spokane

3 cached queries
Primary commercial query · May 25, 2026
Johnson Law Firm, P.C. | Personal Injury & Family Law ranks #6 organic · #1 in the local pack
for law firm near me spokane

Top-3 local pack on this query — that's where the click-through actually lives. Defend it: seanjohnlaw.com's GBP and on-site signals need to stay clean so Google has no reason to swap you out.

What the Top 3 Do That Johnson Law Firm, P.C. | Personal Injury & Family Law Doesn't

Organic top 3 · “law firm near me spokane
#1
maxeylaw.com
Law Firm in Spokane, WA | Maxey Law Office PLLC
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit maxeylaw.com and run a side-by-side compare.
#2
justia.com· directory
Best Lawyers in Spokane, WA
A national directory in your top 3 means Google can't find enough strong local sites to fill the SERP. That's an opening — your audit-grade site can outrank it with the right local signals.
#3
workwith.com
Witherspoon Brajcich McPhee, PLLC – Attorneys at ... - Spokane
Not in our Spokane audit dataset yet. Visit workwith.com and run a side-by-side compare.

Audited values come from our Spokane dataset of > 40 local sites. Where a competitor is a national directory (Yelp, Reddit, etc.) we mark it as such — the signal is that those showed up in your local SERP at all, which is its own diagnosis.

Other Queries in Your Vertical
law firm spokane
Organic #6Local pack #1
Top: foster.com · lukins.com · maxeylaw.com
best law firm spokane
Local pack #1
Top: bestlawspokane.com · yelp.com · avvo.com
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2Your Spokane Signal

Local-anchor audit
Spokane localization signal
Site doesn't say it's in Spokane
25/100

Some Spokane signal present, but the page title doesn't anchor the location. Google reads title first.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Home - Johnson Law Firm, P.C."
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta: "Johnson Law Firm serves Spokane and Montana with expert family law an…"
Local cities / neighborhoods mentioned
No Spokane neighborhoods, Spokane Valley, or surrounding cities mentioned.
509 area code present
No 509 phone number in title/meta — moving it onsite gives Google a structured local cue.

3How the Audit Scores It

Composite — supporting signal
74
Score · 100 point composite
Behind the curve
Across PageSpeed Insights mobile + desktop, on-page hygiene, structured-data adoption, Google Business Profile completeness, and local-pack visibility. Measured May 25, 2026.

4Diagnosis & Prescription

2 critical · 2 material · 1 polish
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Critical
No LocalBusiness schema
JSON-LD is present but no LocalBusiness (or subtype) entity is declared. Local pack ranking relies on this.
Fix:
Critical
Slow mobile performance
Mobile performance score is 15/100. Google uses mobile speed as a ranking factor.
Fix:
Material
Most images missing alt text (14/24)
Image alt coverage is below 70%.
Fix:
Material
Lighthouse SEO score below 90
Lighthouse SEO checks failing — score is 85/100.
Fix:
Polish
Title tag is too short (29 chars)
Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results.
Fix:
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5Among the Spokane Sites We've Audited

3 above you

A separate lens from the SERP positioning above. This ranks law by composite audit score, across the 4 sites we've measured in this vertical.

Among Spokane Law Firmswe've audited
Rank 4 of 4
#1
Note & Kidd PLLC
noteandkidd.com
Does what you don't: Has LocalBusiness structured data
87
/ 100
#2
Cooney Law Offices, P.S.
cooneylawspokane.com
76
/ 100
#3
Gilbert Law Firm, P.S.
wagilbert.com
76
/ 100
#4
You
Johnson Law Firm, P.C. | Personal Injury & Family Law
seanjohnlaw.com
Gap to #3: +2 points · Gap to #1: +13
74
/ 100

6Raw Signals

Supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance15 /100
SEO85 /100
Accessibility84 /100
Best practices77 /100
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating4.4 / 5
Reviews157
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentyes
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag29 chars
Meta description153 chars
H1 count1
Images / missing alt24 / 14
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes

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Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
Report cmplre96 · 2026-05-25